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Family and Education
b. 1616. educ. appr. glover, London c.1629. m. (1) Hannah (d. 6 Oct. 1682), at least 3s. d.v.p. 3da. (1 d.v.p.);W. Orme, Remarkable Passages in Life of Wm. Kiffin (1823), 2, 48-50. (2) 1683, Sarah, wid. of John Westley and John Reeve, and da. of Samuel Hyland*, s.p.L. Kreitzer, William Kiffen and his World (Pt. 1) (Oxford, 2010), 3; (Pt. 7) (2020), 25-31, passim. d. 29 Dec. 1701.Stowe, Survey of London (1720) ii. 57.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Leathersellers’ Co. 10 July 1638; master, 7 July 1671; asst. 24 Oct. 1687.W.H. Black, Hist. and Antiq. of… Leathersellers (1871), 67n; L. Kreitzer, ‘William Kiffen: Leatherseller and Baptist Merchant’, Leathersellers’ Review 2008–9 (2009), 12–13. Alderman, London 6 Aug. 1687.Beaven, Aldermen i. 104; ii. 114; LMA, COL/CA/09/02/010.

Central: treas. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 25 May 1655. Member, cttee. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 1 June 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, pp. 182, 197.

Local: commr. securing peace of commonwealth, London 25 Mar. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 239. assessment, Mdx. 26 June 1657.A. and O. J.p. 3 Oct. 1657–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 376. Commr. City of London militia, 7 July 1659; militia, Mdx. 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Military: lt.-col. red regt. London trained bands, 27 July 1659-Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 735b, 747b; G. Davies, The Restoration of Charles II (Oxford, 1955), 257.

Parlimentarian
KIFFEN, William (1616-1701), of Bethnal Green, Mdx.
: of Bethnal Green, Mdx.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, 1667.Regent’s Park Coll. Oxf.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

KIFFEN, William (1616-1701), of Bethnal Green, Mdx.

Will
23 Mar. 1700, pr. 14 Mar. 1716.PROB11/551/100; PROB10/1532.
Estates
tenant, part of capital messuage of Theobald’s, Herts, June 1652;C54/3689/18. owned lands in Bahamas bef. 1656-at least 1672;Add. 4157, f. 106; Add. 32471, f. 5v. purchased Thorley Hall, Herts., 11 Oct. 1672, conveyed to son, Henry, c.1675.Kreitzer, William Kiffen…(Pt. 2), 155-6.
Oxford 1644
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